ANALYSING DATA FORMATS AND TRANSLATING TO COMMON DATA FORMAT

摘要

An interface (100) allows two shippers SI, S2 to send messages formatted according to their preferences to any or all of a number of truckers T1, T2, T3 and have the truckers T I, T2, T3 receive the messages in their own preferred format. The truckers TI, T2, T3 can thus be coordinated such that which ever of them is available may come and collect a load from one of the shippers S1, S2 as soon as the load has landed. In order to achieve this the interface translates incoming messages from the format they are received in to the format that the intended recipient desires to receive messages in.